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Author Topic: Is it possible to get the Steam Overlay working with Dwarf Fortress?  (Read 1293 times)

Untelligent

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I like steam's screenshots because it's a little simpler than copy-pasting a printscreen into paint and uploading it to an imagehost site, but I can't get the steam overlay to work for Dwarf Fortress (I've added it as a non-steam game in my library).
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Urist McPanzerbeard

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Re: Is it possible to get the Steam Overlay working with Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2014, 05:26:46 pm »

To my knowledge it isn't possible, because of the way steam overlay renders, it doesn't work with certain games.

You could use something like Lightshot or Gyazo, though; it's just a little program that sits in the background and overrides the default print-screen functionality; you just press printscreen, or whatever key you have set for it, and you can select the area of the screen you wanted to screencap. It even has built-in uploading functionality too. I'd recommend Lightshot over Gyazo, I've had a few problems with Gyazo crashing for no obvious reason.
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Re: Is it possible to get the Steam Overlay working with Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2014, 07:01:40 pm »

Jing is another option, it can upload directly to screencast. You can also capture short videos and it will upload (or save to disk) little self-contained swf (flash) files.

Here's a random example from my library on screencast (all this is free, btw)
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